Since you're going the Libreboot route, if you ever end up in a scenario with ChromeOS removed but you "accidentally" disable Dev-Mode/USB Booting (whoops) and try and restore ChromeOS to restart everything only to have it fail.... not all hope is lost.

When you have Libreboot on the C201 and try ChromeOS recovery it will fail with an "unknown error", however that's just what it says in the friendly recovery UI. It actually does restore ChromeOS but stops & rolls back changes once it encounters Libreboot. And there is a way around this. Full details in my comment highlighted here:

^ You the real MVP, just came upon this brick scenario since you replied to my last comment :) I tried to reflash the factory bios back on there in desperation in this 'unknown error' scenario but may have flashed a corrupt image as it boots into the factory bios but is unresponsive to the recovery media; will try again when I get a new pomona clip in the mail, I think I have thrashed the generic one with all my fiddling around with libreboot, coreboot, and me_cleaner lately of various machines in my fleet to the point I can't get a good connection of the flash chips, heh. Exciting this highly awaited GPU drivers become readily available right as I got my C201.

Happen to know of a cheap source for new batteries on these? Mine won't hold a charge at all, cheapest I see is 50 bucks on (US) amazon; What a price to pay considering thats what I paid on the whole chromebook!

From what I understand, this might benefit a very small number of older android devices, like the Samsung Note 8, however that would be assuming one had replaced android with something else anyway. Or maaaaybe could be included in a custom rom.

It's definitely good for any hardware that uses the Mali-series GPUs, including phones. Third-party ROMs will have the option of using a mainline kernel instead of holding back just for GPU blobs. First-party Android vendors will have the option in the long run as well.

But there's more to phone hardware than just GPUs, so there could be other drivers that inhibit someone from using a newer mainline kernel.

I would guess not. It's going to be a long time, possibly never, that a gpu intended for a low power mobile device is going to be anywhere on par with a AMD or even Intel GPU designed for laptops and desktops. Unless your gaming desires are extremely basic.

I am hoping that this is good enough to support the sort of acceleration we need for normal desktop stuff. GPU rendering of text, desktop composition, video playback, etc.

I believe the best mobile GPUs are going to be similar to a low-end iGPU. Apples main benefit, even for the GPU and graphics, is that they control the hardware and software so they can optimise quite heavily which extends to developers needing to optimise code, meaning they get something more akin to console levels of optimisation (Especially since Metal became a thing) vs Android being somewhat more general like the PC albeit without the huge brute power advantage.

No. Apple claims that the GPU in their iPad Pro, which is the most powerful one they've built, is about as powerful as the one in an Xbox One S. Which is roughly eqivalent to an RX 470 or something similar.

Some older OpenGL games could probably run reasonably well via qemu-user. Also full emulators provide tens of thousands of games, with at least a few tens of games being decent. Probably nothing newer than the N64/PS1 era though.

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